Frankfurt: A. Wechel for S. Feyerabend, 1574.

Price: $48,000.00

A very fine copy with a few small spots and a minor marginal stain to one leaf. With woodcut diagrams and a full-page woodcut map showing the nova within the constellation of Cassiopeia personified. "The style of this map was copied directly from Dürer" (Warner). Original limp vellum binding (defective...

Schleswig: auff Gottfriedt Schultzens Kosten, 1674.

Price: $26,500.00

An exceptional copy, crisp and clean, bound in contemporary ivory vellum (lightly soiled), stamped with armorial crest and fleurs-de-lis in silver. Mended tear to the verso of the genealogical plate. Provenance: From the library of Count Franz Ehrenreich von Trauttmannsdorff (Austrian diplomat, 1662–1719), with -in addition to his arms on...

Venice: Appresso Gualtero Scoto, 1552.

Price: $9,500.00

Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment (lightly soiled) with a later spine label. A very good copy with minor blemishes: Title page lightly soiled and with small defect to upper blank margin; second leaf also lightly soiled and possibly lightly washed to remove a tallow stain. A few very light...

Frankfurt: Typis Hartmanni Palthenii, sumptibus Lucae Iennis, 1620.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in later vellum, restored, new end-papers. A fine, clean copy with a hint of toning to the occasional leaf and three small stains on lvs. I2, F1, and Ff2.First edition of this illustrated alchemical work by the German alchemist, physician, and Rosicrucian Michaël Maier, who served briefly (1608-1610) as...

Paris: Impensis Gerardi Morrhij & Ioannis Petri, 1532.

Price: $85,000.00

Bound in contemporary quarter pigskin and wooden boards with intact clasps. Inscription on title: “Est Adolfi Glauburg, Johannis Adolfi Glauburg, Jacobi Maquardi Glauburg.” An extremely fine, crisp, bright copy with broad margins. There is some minor damp-staining to a few gatherings, a few insignificant blemishes, and a short worm-trail in...

Forlì: Giovanni Cimatti, 1637.

Price: $14,500.00

Bound in 18th c. quarter vellum and paste-paper over boards (re-cased, possiby a remboîtage, recent endpapers.) A fine copy with just a small abrasion to the blank lower margin of the half-title and title with careful restoration, and a short, clean tear in the blank margin of leaf H2 (not...

Krakow: [Jan Haller], 28 April, 1506.

Price: $45,000.00

Illustrated with a full-page woodcut of an armillary sphere on the verso of the title page and another large woodcut on B1 recto, showing the spheres of Earth, the elemental zones, the spheres of the planets, and above them, the zodiac. This diagram of Creation is overseen by Christ as...

Wittenberg: Johann Rhau-Grunenberg, 1521.

Price: $20,000.00

With a historiated woodcut border from the workshop of Lucas Cranach featuring cherubs lounging about the thistles, dressed as musicians, soldiers, and one with a cardinal’s hat. A crisp copy with broad margins, annotated throughout by a contemporary reader. Bound in modern boards (binding soiled, boards worn). Light stain from...

Basel: ex Offic. Henricpetrina, 1566.

Price: $12,500.00

[Bound with:] De methodo medendi, sectiones quatuor. Paris: in aedibus Rouillij, 1565 Octavo: 15.6 x 10.5 cm. 2 works in one volume. 1. “Ars curandi parva” (in 2 vols): Vol. I: (96), 1-720 pp. Vol. II: (2), 1003-1621 (3) pp. (as numbered by the publisher, instead of...

Various places: various printers, 1521 to, 1524.

Price: $95,000.00

Bound in contemporary half-pigskin over wooden boards, tooled in blind. The binding is well-preserved with small defects (chipping along the leading edge of the lower boards, with loss of one strap and clasp. Both catch-plates and one of the two straps are preserved.) Fine, broad-margined copies of all 17 works...

Amsterdam: Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburgh, 1635.

Price: $10,500.00

Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, corners bumped.) Title lightly soiled, small collector’s mark (Lugt 585), with artist’s tools and monogram “CK”, of the Dutch painter, architect, and art historian Christiaan Kramm (1797-1875). Text with scattered light browning and foxing, some spotting (impurities in the paper), light soiling, insignificant...

Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter the younger], 1520.

Price: $8,500.00

Disbound, with a slim guard along the spine. A crisp copy, the title very lightly soiled, contents with some very light scattered marginal foxing and a few light marginal blemishes; blank verso of last leaf lightly soiled.This is the first response by Luther to the papal bull threatening him with...

[Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1477.

Price: $135,000.00

Folio: 33 x 23.5 cm. 375 of 376 lvs. (Lacking only blank leaf ã1. Blank leaves a1 and PP12 are present). Collation: ã8, ẽ8; a-i10, K10, l8; m8, n-s10, t-v8, x-y10; aa-gg10, hh-ii8, KK-OO10, PP12. (signing begins on f. 2 with “ã1”). Text in two columns of 49 lines, printed...